You are exactly right, I've dispatched ones who caused bigger issues within the flock, this time around it's only the beard plucking, she doesn't go for blood or does not hurt any of the other girls.
We will try pinless peepers again, and once our new flock is out of the grow out pin, I'll toss...
Thanks for the advice, we do not plan on letting her go broody, no rooster so no chicks! She clucks around like she wants to go broody, but we have a cage set up to break her if she intends to try and follow through.
We plan on keeping the pinless peepers on her moving forward in hopes that...
Good morning fellow chicken enthusiast, I have a Blue Egger Pullet who is almost 1 year old now, she has 5 other sisters 4 EE's and Biel. We have a 6x6 coop with a 8x12 run, that opens up to a 15x65 free range area full of jungle gyms, perches and things any chicken would love to scratch in...